Black Stallion on the Beach

[Tom aka T-Bone]

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OK, this was done in PSP X2, I use both Ps Cs4 and PSP, but find myself using PSP more for two reasons, 1) being I have been using PSP for some 10 years now. And 2) it has a lot of short cut that get the job done quick, but yes Adobe Ps has a lot more advanced option and go there to do things that can't be done in PSP.... The first PSP I bought back then was PSP4 and was owned and sold from Jasc Software Inc, the last version this co. made was PSP 8, ( Solid Stable Program) and then they sold out to Corel, now Corel shortly after buying it can out with PSP 10, which of course I bought.. Man it really sucked, so I trashed it and went back to old faithful PSP 8. Well Corel realizing that they screwed up and came out with PSP X2 ( don't know what happen to 11???) anyway I decided to give it a try and downloaded this version on a Trial.. I liked it, it had a lot of advanced updates from 8, so I bought it.. know YES its a Good program, but not as stable as I would like (As You Work, Back up every 5 min. in case it crashes)... Know how I did this photo... In PSP there called Tub's (Meaning an image with a transparent background) I shot her photo in front of my Garage door and then made a tub out of it, outlining the parts (with a feather of 3 ) that I didn't want, then deleting them till I had just Her and the Bike, leaving a Tub Layer, now all I had to do was find an appropriate background and place the Tub over it, resizing the Back ground till it looked good with her over it. In order to keep it from looking like I cut out a paper doll and pasted it on the background, I took a Burr brush (Very small) and went all around the edges in order to blend her and the Bike into the background, with that done I took a wide erase brush and did the edges of the photo, Merged all layers and there you have it... SHeeeeesh, this is more typing then I'v none in a while... LOL. If you need to ask questions Please feel free to ask.... (TIME?) 2 hours. Check out My Web Site to see the opening flash of more of my Photo Artistry.. Thanks for Viewing my work... ( http://www.TrumanPhotography.com ) Tom aka T-Bone

[JeffSmith]

That's great Tom, good job. Love the lady and the Harley!

Cool extraction. Now then, how did you do it and how long did it take?

[Tom aka T-Bone]

Thanks, I went back and posted how I did it.. Tried to keep it as short as possible, but could have wrote a small book on "HOW TO" but didn't.. TOM

Originally Posted by Jeff-Smith

That's great Tom, good job. Love the lady and the Harley!

Cool extraction. Now then, how did you do it and how long did it take?

[JeffSmith]

Hi Tom, when you say you outlined the image with a feather of 3, which tool did you use to get the outline?

[Tom aka T-Bone]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Smith

Hi Tom, when you say you outlined the image with a feather of 3, which tool did you use to get the outline?

With PSP it's called [ Selection Tool ]

With Ps it's called [ LASSO Tool ]

Which program do you have?

Here is another example of what can be done with Tub's

[Vail Marston]

Very nice work!

Paint Shop Pro 11 is called XI, by the way. Unfortunately, Corel rarely adds anything in their upgrades of this product to make it worth the bother. I hear it has been transferred to a different group within Corel, so perhaps X3 will merit a look.